Analysing Schumacher's weekend to forget
Michael Schumacher made the headlines for the wrong reasons on Sunday afternoon in Hungary, the incident with Rubens Barrichello completing a dismal weekend for the German. Tony Dodgins gives his take on the matter
Michael and Rubens. It was difficult weekends that brought them together.
Schumacher was in all sorts of trouble with the Mercedes. He lined up 14th on the Hungaroring grid, 2.2s from the Red Bull pace in Q2 and eight slots behind team-mate Nico Rosberg.
The gap to Nico had been 0.015 seconds in the first free practice and Michael had actually been a couple of tenths quicker in FP2, when they ran different programmes. But the gap to Red Bull had still been 1.7s and Schumacher did not like the feel of the car. He made wholesale changes overnight. Not small things. Not what you'd call fine-tuning. Things like weight distribution and roll centres as he opted for a softer car.
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